 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...This god on earth turns devil in hell; And lo ! his ministers of state, Transformed to imps, his levee wait, Where, in the scenes of endless woe, They ply...the judge's vote ; To Cerberus they give a sop, His triple-barking mouth to stop; Or in the ivory gate of dreams Project Excise and South-Sea schemes,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...god on earth turns devil in hell : And lo ! his ministers of state, Transform'd to imps, his levee wait ; Where in the scenes of endless woe, They ply...the judge's vote ; To Cerberus they give a sop, His triple barking mouth to stop ; Or, in the ivory gate of dreams.t Project excise and South-Sea schemes... | |
 | James Hay - Authors, Irish - 1891 - 390 pages
...on earth turns devil in H—; And lo his Ministers of State, Transformed to imps, his levee waits ; Where in the scenes of endless woe, They ply their former arts below. i Then, poet, if you mean to thrive, Employ your muse on kings alive ; With prudence gathering up a... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, John Frederick Stanford - English language - 1891 - 868 pages
...being olde, I One foote already within Charon!* bote: RC, Times' Whistle, y. 2267, p. 72 (1871). 1733 And as they sail in Charon's boat, | Contrive to bribe the judge's vote : SWIFT, Wks., p. 603/2 (i86gX 1783 Had they been hurried into Charon s hoy at once, they could not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 pages
...This god on earth turns devil in hell: And lo ! his ministers of state, Transform'd to imps, his levee wait; Where in the scenes of endless woe, They ply...the judge's vote; To Cerberus they give a sop, His triple barking mouth to stop; Or, in the ivory gate of dreams,1 Project excise and South-Sea2 schemes;... | |
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As soon as you can hear his knell, This god on earth turns devil in hell : And lo ! his ministers of state... 
